re: Let's talk about November PC component and peripheral deals(Posted by VABuckeye on 11/9/12 at 12:07 pm to stout)

I'm thinking about upgrading my current PC. It will be two years in February since I built my current setup. I think the case and power supply can be reused. I'm not sure about the graphics cards. I have two 6970s running in Crossfire but I haven't kept up with what has come out since then so I don't know if they are stout enough for next year.

SSD drives are dropping in price so I may go 2XSSD with a humongous SATA HD behind them.

Does anyone have thoughts on which current processors offer the best bang for the buck? I prefer Intel so no AMD please.

re: Let's talk about November PC component and peripheral deals(Posted by VABuckeye on 11/9/12 at 12:30 pm to baytiger)

Yeah. I was just going through Tom's Hardware forums and my 2600K still looks to be in really good shape. I think adding SSD, maybe more RAM and going multiple monitors is the best upgrade path right now. The CPU, MB and graphics that I have look to be in pretty good shape unless I want to go $$$$$ for incremental improvements which I do not want to do.

re: Let's talk about November PC component and peripheral deals(Posted by LSU Coyote on 11/9/12 at 12:38 pm to VABuckeye)

quote:Yeah. I was just going through Tom's Hardware forums and my 2600K still looks to be in really good shape.

Hell yea it is, I wouldn't even waste an upgrade on Haswell. Would wait for Skylake or Ivy-E.

I have just upgraded to a 3770K but some of my programs (Aperture/PS) could benefit from the 2 extra cores. So when Ivy-E comes in maybe January I will be jumping in on that upgrade. Think I will skip the main stream socket this time around.